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But we're still in it, and this is a critical moment. >> reporter: the president's plan calls for addressing a significant deficit in testing with 500 million rapid covid tests to be sent to the homes of americans who request them. preparing 1,000 military service members to deploy to overburdened hospitals. new federal testing sites starting in new york city. on the testing front, it's an about-face for the white house, with press secretary jen psaki dismissive of sending tests to people's homes just two weeks ago. >> should we just send one to every american? >> maybe. >> then what happens i...

Cases. >> let me say again and again and again, please get vaccinated. >> the president drawing a sharp line between the vaccinated and boosted and the unvaccinated. making yet another plea for americans to take seriously the omicron variant that suddenly a majority of new u.s. cases. >> i know you're tired. i really mean this. i know you're frustrated. we all want this to be over. but we're still in it. and this is a critical moment. >> reporter: the president's plan today calls for addressing a significant deficit in testing. with 500 million rapid covid tests to be sent to the homes of amer...

Has urgently tried to figure out how to address esthat. now you mentioned boosters and vaccinations certainly the primary component of defense. they will be standing up more vaccination sites trying to ensure that there's better opportunities to get shots notice arms. you talked about i think one of the most critical components and that's what the president is going to lay out and that's on the testing front. we've seen lines across the country, difficulty in getting rapid tests and the administration is going all in between trying to give as many pathways as possible to get at-home rapid test...

Available everywhere? >> should we just send one to every american? >> maybe. >> what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and what happens that have? >> look, i get there's nuanced complexities on the testing front. what's the answer. what's the reaction and answer to testing? >> my and most of my colleagues was, yes, we should be sending one to every house along with high quality masks and low cost or rapid free antigen tests available at every drugstore, post office, clinic. these are part of our multi--layered strategy for stopping this tidal wave of omicron that...

Infected. >> what did we learn from delta that we should apply to omicron? >> delta is -- yeah, delta is such a bad variant. and it's funny because right now we're sort of all focused on omicron. delta is what's killing a thousand americans every day. what we have learned is boosters are essential. you cannot get away with just two shots if you're six months out. what we have learned is that it rips through populations of unvaccinated people very, very quickly. and i expect that omicron, if it ends up becoming dominant in the u.s. will do exactly the same thing. so a very up tough time to be u...